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passing into deep blue on the tertiaries ; primaries, seconda- 

 ries, and tertiaries slightly margined with yellow ; tail largely 

 tipped with yellow, tinged with green, particularly on the two 

 centre feathers ; chin pale yellow ; sides of the neck greenish 

 grey ; chest pale greenish grey, each feather forked at the end 

 and tipped with grey ; below the chest an indistinct band of 

 sulphur-yellow ; flanks and lower part of the abdomen green ; 

 centre of the abdomen rich orange, in the middle of which is 

 a lunar-shaped mark of lilac ; under tail-coverts orange ; 

 thighs and tarsi green ; irides orange ; feet olive. 



Total length 7f inches ; bill f ; wing 4f ; tail 3 ; tarsi f . 



Genus LAMPROTRERON, Bonaparte. 



This genus was established for the Coliimha superba of 

 Temminck, and two other species — C. porpliyrea and CJiolo- 

 sericea. Whether the latter two birds are really of the same 

 form as the first I am unable to say ; but the present species 

 is the type of the genus, and the only one found in Australia. 



Sp. 453. LAMPROTRERON SUPERBUS. 



Superb Eruit-Pigeon. 



Columha superba, Temm. Les Pig., fol. 2nd fam., p. 75, pi. 33. 

 Ptilinopus superbus, Steph. Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 279. 

 Lamprotreron superba, Bonap. Coup d'CEil des Pig. Compt. Rend, de 

 I'Acad. Sci., torn, xxxix et xl. 1854, 1855. 



Ptilinopus superbus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 57. 



This lovely species was originally figured and described in 

 the splendid work on the Pigeons by Madame Knip and 

 Temminck as an inhabitant of one of the islands of the 

 Pacific Ocean ; and it affords me much pleasure to be enabled 

 to include it in the Fauna of Austraha, specimens having been 

 procured by Mr. Bynoe on Booby Island, which lies off" the 

 north coast ; since then it has, I believe, been found on the 



